Biography Katherine Sherwood

It started with a sudden pain on the top left side of Katherine Sherwood's head—"the worst headache of my life," recalls the 49-year-old artist, who is an art professor at the University of California at Berkeley. She was in a campus studio that morning of May 2, 1997, offering critiques of her graduate students' paintings, when she was felled by a stroke, a massive cerebral hemorrhage. Within seconds she began to lose feeling in her right arm and leg, and after a minute her entire right side was paralyzed, her
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